PMTT Cass Lake Qualifier Canceled
IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
July 19th, 2011
Due to several situation and issues that have evolved from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources being shut down, the Professional Musky Tournament Trail (PMTT) has announced the cancellation of the PMTT Cass Lake Tournament on August 12th & 13th, 2011. We apologize for any and all inconveniences that this may have caused to anyone involved with the PMTT. There will not be a make-up date or tournament to replace the canceled event. All entry fees will be refunded in their entirety or can be applied to their Championship fees if applicable.
The PMTT Ranger Boats Championship will still occur as scheduled on September 24th & 25th, 2011 on Alum Creek, OH. A formal letter is being sent to every PMTT team explaining this and detailing how the championship will be held this year due to the cancellation.
For the Championship: Every team that qualified already for the championship will only have to pay the required $250 entry fee into the championship. All PMTT Trail Teams that have not registered a fish yet and are signed up to fish in the Cass Lake tournament can enter the Championship but must pay a full entry fee of $600. Any team that has registered a fish in a qualifier, has fished in only one PMTT tournament and is signed up to fish in the Cass Lake tournament can enter the Championship but must pay a full entry fee of $600. Yes, this means that there could be a few more teams then the 50 team limit that usually applies.
The prize payouts at the PMTT Ranger Boats Championship will NOT be based on the field sizes at the qualifying events this year, but will be guaranteed to be the full amounts, as if there were full fields at all the qualifying events throughout the year.
Do to the unusual circumstances that have occurred this year, we have painstakingly tried to do our best to be as fair as possible to every angler that competes in the PMTT. Though this decision may not agree with everyone, the PMTT schedules are planned out a full year in advance and we did not want to wait until the last minute to make this difficult decision. Again, we apologize for any inconveniences that this may have caused to anyone involved with the PMTT.
Sincerely,
PMTT Staff
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2011 PMTT Early Bird Trail Team Drawing
- Zuelzke & Borovsky
- Lijewski & Schroeder
- Summers & Bilbrey
- Rozek & Haynes
- Halverson & TBA
- Haagenson & McCartin
- Korpela & Adkins
- Upton & Germann
- Peterson & Peterson
- Kahl & Green
- Hopfensperger & Hopfensperger
- Dietz & Templin
- Grant & Schultz
- Riley & TBA
- VanGorder & Parker
- Burseth & Burseth
- Smida & Clepper
- Burton & Rue
- Weeda & Sinn
- Foreman & TBA
- Gene Erickson
- Stewart & Ferjutz
- Asleson & Taylor
- Stevenson & Stevenson
- Nash & TBA
- Stella & Sennett
- Schneider & Wells
- Allison & Cook
- Nelson & TBA
- Ustaszewski & Michalec
- Kozlowski & TBA
- Donovan & Reibe
- Ryan & VanZandt
- Miller & TBA
- Stewart & Sweeney
- Johnson & Brown
- Landmeier & Kiefer
- Radtke & Leverance
- Olsen & Hamm
- Lewein & Haluska
- Kliczko & Shafer
- Lehnherr & Lehnherr
- Baldridge & Baldridge
- Vig & Matz
- Mullins & Mullins
- Genson & Keyes
- Lewis & Lewis
- Hamernick & TBA
- Drews & Drews
- Weidner & Weidner
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2011 registrations are being accepted.
Early Bird Take Off Number Drawing 2/16/11, all entries must be received by this date to be included in the Early Bird Drawing. All entries received after 2/16/11 will be assigned a Take Off number in the order they are received.You can register to fish in 1 tournament or all 3 Qualifying events, it's up to you. The PMTT is now excepting entries for the 2011 season up until the February 15th drawing for starting positions. After the drawing all entries received will be on a first come first serve basis.
Three Qualifiers!
Cave Run Lake, Kentucky, April 16th & 17th, 2011
Eagle River Chain, Eagle River, WI, June 25th & 26th, 2011
Cass Lake, Minnesota, August 13 th & 14th, 2011
World Championship!
Alum Creek Lake, Ohio, September 24th & 25th, 2011
When the PMTT gets everything in order on the August qualifier & the Championship we will let everyone know all the details. We will be posting all the site specific information for each tournament up here on the PMTT website soon. Should be another exciting year on the PMTT in 2011.
CLICK HERE for PMTT Tournament Entry Form
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Those who would like to see photos from the Championship, professional photographer Tom Palm was on the water during the Championship photographing the contestants during the tournament. Below is his contact info and website to view and download these photos.
Click Here to view and download Championship photos
Tom Palm
tpalm@designlayout.com
www.designlayout.com
Design & Layout Services
1685 Concordia Street
Wayzata, MN 55391
800-471-8448 Toll Free
952-471-7170 Phone
952-471-8797 Fax--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2010 PMTT Bonuses & Contingencies Awards
This is a list of the extra bonus payouts, contingencies awards and prizes that are available during the 2010 PMTT Events. This is in addition to the tournament payouts, top gun awards and big fish awards at every tournament. There are also free sponsor products raffled off at every tournament and sponsor apparel awarded.
Ranger Cup Award: $1,000 cash awarded to the registered Ranger Boat owner who wins any of the PMTT Qualifying events. Must be registered for Ranger Cup every year. Not valid for the PMTT Ranger Boats World Championship.
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$2,500 Musky Mayhem Bonus: Catch the winning fish in any of the 5 tournaments on a Musky Mayhem product and receive a $500 cash bonus! Possible yearly payout is $2,500.$5,000 Chaos Tackle Bonus: Catch the winning fish in any of the 5 tournaments on a Chaos Tackle product and receive a $1,000 bonus - $500 cash and $500 in product. Possible yearly payout is $5,000.
Host Your Own TV Show: The winner of the PMTT Ranger Boats World Championship will co-host and film a TV show of their own with the folks at Keyes Outdoors. Guaranteed yearly value,,, priceless.
$1,000 The D.E.W. Award: It’s basically a good sportsmanship - feel good award for two teams each year who will receive a plaque and $500 check each. The award could be based on anything, from hard luck stories to good deeds. Maybe a team consistently comes in one place out of the money or misses the cut each year for the championship. Maybe it's a team that stops and helps another team and it costs them the better part of their time and so on. The PMTT reviews all the entries each year and then picks the two teams they find most deserving. Guaranteed yearly payout is $1,000.
$4,500 Tackle Industries Bonus: If you catch all your fish on a Tackle Industries Product and win any of the 4 Qualifiers, you will win $500 in retail tackle and $2,500 for the championship. Possible yearly payout is $4,500.
$600 PMTT Free Entries: The PMTT draws a team for a free $600 entry to the next qualifier at every awards ceremony. Team must be present to win, non-transferable. Guaranteed yearly value is $3,000.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW PMTT RULE Effective Immediately. No angler/s competing in any PMTT event is allowed to have spotter boats or guide boats of any kind assisting them with locations, information, presentation or details of any kind during tournament hours and from the end of day one until the start of day two of any PMTT tournament.
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Pre-fishing for the Championship & Support A Good Cause
The Tournament for stocking Metro waters in honor of the late George Wahl is Saturday October 2. Tournament hours are 7 AM to 4 PM, and most metro muskie waters are included. An awards program and pork chop feed at Thorne Brothers will follow at 5 PM. Proceeds of last years tournament bought yearling muskies, pit and floy tags for a stocking study in Lake Minnetonka. Proceeds of this year's tournament will continue that work and add Bald Eagle Lake for stocking. Participating in this tournament is an important way to continue to improve the Twin Cities area fishery.
You can register for the tournament at:
Thorne Bros. in Blaine
Joe's Sporting Goods in St. Paul
Blue Ribbion Bait in Oakdale
through October 1
You can also register online for the tournament at www.twincitiesmuskiesinc.org--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2010 PMTT Early Bird Trail Team Drawing
1. Donovan & Riebe
2. Summers & Bilbrey
3. Weidner & Weidner
4. Germann & Upton
5. Genson & Keyes
6. Korpela & Adkins
7. Lehnherr & Lehnherr
8. Smida & Clepper
9. Mark Nelson & TBA
10. Dietz & Foor
11. Haagenson & McCartin
12. Riley & Vaughn
13. Rusteberg & Bowman
14. Olsen & Hamm
15. Haynes & Prociut
16. Nash & Ebersole
17. Drew & Drew
18. Ustaszewski & Michalec
19. Mullins & Mullins
20. Radtke & Leverance
21. Baldridge & Baldridge
22. Kliczko & Shafer
23. Stella & Sennett
24. Reiter & Saucedo
25. Landmeier & Ryan
26. Rozek & Dresow
27. Berman & TBA
28. Burseth & Burseth
29. Forman & TBA
30. Schneider & Wells
31. Risius & Lulay
32. Hammernick & Hoyer
33. Grant & Schultz
34. Zuelzke & Borovsky
35. Stevenson & Stevenson
36. Dipietro & Medin
37. Stewart & Ferjutz
38. Anderson & Anderson
39. Colvin & Kozlowski
40. Stewart & Sweeney
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2010 registrations are being accepted.
You can register to fish in 1 tournament or all 4 Qualifying events, it's up to you. The PMTT is now excepting entries for the 2010 season up until the February 15th drawing for starting positions. After the drawing all entries received will be on a first come first serve basis.The PMTT 2010 schedule is as follows:
4 Qualifying Events:
Cave Run Lake, KY - April 17th & 18th, 2010
Eagle River Chain, WI - June 26th & 27th, 2010
Chippewa Flowage, WI - August 14th & 15th, 2010
St. Louis River, WI & MN - September 11th & 12th, 2010Ranger Boats World Championship:
Lake Minnetonka, MN - October 9th & 10th, 2010CLICK HERE for PMTT Tournament Entry Form
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The D.E.W. Award is basically a good sportsmanship, feel good, award for two teams or individuals each year. Each year the PMTT takes letters, emails or phone calls from their anglers from throughout the year and then picks two teams or individuals who will receive a plaque and a $500 check for each. The award could be based on anything, from hard luck stories to good deeds. Examples: Maybe a team or individual consistently comes in one place out of the money or misses the cut each year for the championship. Maybe it's a team or individual that stops and helps another team and it costs them the better part of their time and so on. The PMTT reviews all the entries each year and then picks the two teams or individual they find most deserving.
2010 Winners
The PMTT is proud to announce the winners of the 2009 DEW Award.
The first winner is Dale and Don Drew. Dale and Don are also a trail team that went out of their way during a tournament to help not only one of their fellow anglers but also a judge. This all happened during tournament fishing hours and costing them valuable fishing time. When they heard that another team was having trouble getting a judge to witness their fish, Dale and Don noticed that the judge was right by them and was having boat problems. Though another judge was on the way and only a couple minutes away, they still went over to the troubled judge, took him in their boat over to witness the release. Not only that, when they were done with the release, they took the judge in to get him help with his boat. The team that caught the fish went on to win the tournament and Dale and Don showed everyone good sportsmen ship and captured one of the 2009 $500 PMTT DEW Awards.
The second award goes out to Ed Haagenson. Ed has been fishing the trail since the PMTT was started. Through the years Ed has gone out of his way to not only help anglers and fellow competitors before and after the events, he helps fellow anglers out during the tournaments. Many anglers have told us about how helpful Ed is year in and year out, that not only does he help out when ever he can, he helps others during the tournament when he is actually competing against them. Several times every year anglers tell us about how helpful he was even during the event, that Ed has shown that one good deed deserves another and Ed is more then deserving of the other 2009 $500 PMTT DEW Award.
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As part of the PMTT commitment to the preservation of habitat, the study of and management of muskies and basically anything to help keep the sport of musky fishing growing and for the betterment of the great outdoors in general, the PMTT has the conservation donation program. It is a program that is made possible from each and every angler that fished in the PMTT. As part of the PMTT anglers membership fee, the PMTT makes donations every year to different programs and organizations. From local projects that pertain to a certain body of water to national projects that benefit many different states and water bodies. So far to date, the PMTT and its members have donated over $16,000 to many different projects and organizations, some of which are:
- Operation Green Gene.
- Muskie Stocking
- Illinois Conservation Foundation
- The Muskie Symposium
- Managing Minnesota Trophies – Educational DVD.
- Aquatic Education program
- State DNR offices
- Fund raisers
- Illinois Musky Association
- Mullins Multiple Myeloma Foundation
- Invasive species and milfoil study
- Minnows for musky rearing
- Many individual Muskie Inc chapters.
- Muskie Inc. International
- Different fund raisers for clubs and organizations.
If you would like to inquire about up coming donations or the PMTT making a donation to a particular project or organization in the future, please send the details of the project and/or organization and what they are trying to accomplish or their goals in an e-mail to the PMTT at info@promusky.com
Please remember, though the PMTT would like to help every outdoor sportsman and their effort, we cannot possibly do so. We will review each and every one of the request we receive and reply to them all. Though we may be fully supportive of your ideas and projects we have a limited amount each year for donations.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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